"When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be."

-- Robert M. Hutchins

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“Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. Itâ€™s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.”
“The first rule about a black womanâ€™s hair is you donâ€™t talk about a black womanâ€™s hair. And the second rule is you donâ€™t ever touch a black womanâ€™s hair without getting written permission first.”
“I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.”
“Every comedian comes to a fork in the road where they have to decide if they're going to make jokes about other people or make jokes about themselves. I chose myself.”
“I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.”

Source : Ross Macdonald (2010). “The Goodbye Look”, p.147, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“Stop thinking schoolishly. Stop acting teacherishly. Stop talking about learning as though it's separate from life.”
“Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.”
“I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.”

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